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  1. Library Resource
    Thai forest policy
    Reports & Research
    May, 2020
    Thailand

    รายงานการศึกษานโยบายกฎหมายและสถานะการถือครองที่ดินป่าไม้ของเกษตรกรรายย่อยในพื้นที่ป่าสงวนแห่งชาตินี้เป็นผลงานที่เกิดจากเรียบเรียงเอกสารมือสอง การสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกและการทำงานในพื้นที่ภาคสนามร่วมกันระหว่าง รีคอฟ อาจารย์ ดร.รัชนี โพธิแท่น และคณะนักศึกษาปริญญาโท คณะวนศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์ ตัวแทนชุมชนในพื้นที่ป่าสงวนแห่งชาติ และเครือข่ายประชาสังคมเพื่อการจัดการป่าอย่างยั่งยืนและเป็นธรรม (เฟล็กที) เพื่อรวบรวมข้อมูลทั้งทางด้านวิชาการนโยบาย ข้อมูลเชิงปริมาณ และการสะท้อนมุมมองของผู้ที่เกี่ยวข้องในประเด็นของการถือครองที่ดินป่าในพื้นที่ป่าสงวนแห่งชาติ" 
     

  2. Library Resource
    Critical Review of Selcted Forest-Related Regulatory Initiatives

    Applying a Rights Perspective

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2011
    Asia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, India

    This report brings together four studies that evaluate regulatory initiatives with implications for forest-dependent communities from a rights-based perspective. These are: The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 – India; Regulatory initiatives and selected outcomes of judicial processes in Malaysia; The Community Forest Act (2007) – Thailand; and The Indigenous People’s Rights Act (1997) – Philippines. Each study covers law making, content and implementation.

  3. Library Resource
    Thailand’s Community Forest Act
    Reports & Research
    June, 2021
    Thailand

    Thailand is undergoing an important development in its forestry laws. When the Community Forest Act B.E. 2562 was passed in 2019, Thailand had for the first time an official umbrella law to recognize community forestry. Subordinate laws still need to be developed to further clarify the Act for its implementation. 

  4. Library Resource
    Overview of the State of Forests and Forest Management in Azerbaijan
    Reports & Research
    February, 2020
    Azerbaijan

    Overview of the State of Forests and Forest Management in Azerbaijan derives from the project on the state of forests in the Caucasus and Central Asia and presents the forest resources and the forest sector of Azerbaijan, including trends in, and pressures on forests. The overview describes policies and institutions of forest sector in Azerbaijan and major challenges the sector faces as well as policy responses in place or planned.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2015
    India

    This paper presents case studies of two tribal villages - Mendha Lekha and Jamguda - successfully running forest-based bamboo businesses under the community forest rights provisions of Forest Rights Act (2006). We have documented the issues faced by the villagers in claiming community forest rights, issues faced in harvesting and sale of bamboo, and business practices adopted by both the villages.

  6. Library Resource
    Forest Crimes in Cambodia

    Rings of illegality in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary

    Reports & Research
    March, 2021
    Cambodia

    Cambodia has suffered some of the highest rates of deforestation (measured as a percentage of forest cover) of any country since the 1970s – and rates have been increasing significantly in the past decade. Even the country’s so-called protected areas have been severely impacted, despite supposedly being safeguarded under Cambodian law.

  7. Library Resource
    Forest Policy Development in Mongolia
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Mongolia

    Mongolia’s forests are located in the transitional zone between the great Siberian taiga and the Mongolian plateau of grassland steppe. These forests play a critical role in preventing soil erosion and land degradation, in regulating the water regime in mountain areas, maintaining permafrost distribution, and in providing habitats for wildlife and preserving biodiversity.

  8. Library Resource
    The fragmented land use administration in Indonesia

    Analysing bureaucratic responsibilities influencing tropical rainforest transformation systems

    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2015
    Indonesia

    Tropical forests in Indonesia are subject to major transformation processes from native forests to other land uses, including rubber agroforestry as well as rubber and oil palm plantation systems. Using content analysis of policy documents, this paper aims at (i) analysing the formal administrative responsibilities related to the four rainforest transformation systems and (ii) based on the informal motives of the competing bureaucracies involved generating hypotheses on their future course of action and related research.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Brazil, South America

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